‘The information that we have been furnished with throughout Friday and yesterday clearly demonstrates that the legal requirement was met,’ he told the briefing.

During a briefing outlining plans to re-open COVID healthcare, HSE chief executive Paul Reid confirmed that a draft report had investigated into what happened at the Mater Hospital. Pic: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie

‘However, the information that was submitted to the labs at one stage in the process did not have the full details, in particular all the names etc… of those cases.

‘Therefore it didn’t allow us for the complete correlation of the data at the appropriate time.’

HSE Chief Executive Paul Reid said that the data submitted to labs by the Mater at one stage did ‘not have the full details’. Pic: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland.

He said that the missing information from each of the 244 cases was consistent.

He said that the HSE was now in the process of contacting hospitals throughout the country to ensure that they have been submitting details of all infections in a timely manner.

The HSE’s Chief Clinical Officer Dr Colm Henry stressed that critical information needed for contact tracing was given by the Mater.

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